The science of business in business schools?
I really enjoyed science courses during my undergrad years (I'm still an undergrad, used to be pre-med though so I took a bunch of science courses), and one thing I am afraid of in business school is that a lot of the questions and answers will be somewhat open ended. I like having precise answers like in economics (my major) - do a lot of business school courses give problems with precise, smart, logical answers or are there many open ended, ambiguous problems?
Just speculating here, but what I expect is you'll be given precise, smart, logical, "scientific" answers, even though none exist. In other words, business professors will make the unscientific appear scientific, just like economists do. To quote F.A. Hayek:
precise answers in imprecise fields are generally not worth a dime.
Well, said. Let me offer a few more Hayek quotes (again, from the same Nobel speech) which make a similar point.
You lost me here.
Haha, I think what he means is he prefers answers that "appear" precise, even when no precise answer exits - like in econ. :)
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Have you ever taken a microeconomics course? The answers to the problems are always precise, ie: something like... p = a^2-c/(4ab)
My major is economics, all my classes have had precise answers to problems.
take an epistemology course and realize no precise answers exist for anything
1+1 = ...?
Math is different though; it's more about a philosophy. It turns out that it's an incredibly useful philosophy for understanding the real world, but it's a philosophy none the less. You could have completely different axioms that give you a completely different branch of mathematics, where different things would be "true." I hope I'm not talking out of my ass here, because I'm pretty sure that's how it works.
Or that article I've already linked to in this thread. ;)
Vitae veritatis impedit perspiciatis eius et. Corporis nemo magnam recusandae reprehenderit et beatae. Adipisci fugit quaerat sequi nobis dolorem. Inventore placeat iusto ea pariatur eius.
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